Sure, this is Peach Festival weekend. But peach shakes, malts and cones are on the menu every day at the Malt Shop.

For 55 years, the little drive-in near Hudson Oaks has been serving the usual burgers, dogs and soft drinks, but with homemade ice cream, shakes and malts alongside.

The ice cream comes in nine flavors, all made in small ice-cream freezers at the Malt Shop and sold for less than $2 per cup. The most talked-about flavor might be peach or chocolate chip, but there’s also old-fashioned banana nut.

Malts and shakes come in the same flavors plus butterscotch. The burgers aren’t going to win a Burger Battle, but they’re inexpensive.

But a year after bringing Aventino’s back from a wrong turn, the Hights have the Ridglea restaurant on its way to a 30th anniversary.

Daughter Erica Paez Hight and her chef husband, Chris, restored the restaurant’s simple, affordable Italian menu and the atmosphere of the Paez family’s original location in Ridglea Village.

With the Aventino’s basics back in place, Chris Hight has been experimenting with specials lately such as lamb meatballs and desserts such as a bananas Foster bread pudding.

The restaurant’s new location is around the corner from the original, in a strip shopping center at 5800 Lovell Ave., a half-block west of Camp Bowie Boulevard. It’s open weekdays for lunch and dinner, Saturdays for dinner; 817-570-7940, aventinos.com.

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